After installing the Google Chrome browser on a freshly built system, I tried to start it and kept on getting the following error: “chrome.exe – Application Error : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application”.

After a bit of research, I found a successful workaround – to turn off the sandboxing feature of Google Chrome. To do this, add the ‘–no-sandbox’ parameter to the shortcut you are using to start Chrome. Eg your new shortcut would be:

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